Ruby Marsden Hicks

Ruby Marsden Hicks
Born	1919
Died	2020
Occupation	seamstress and production worker

Ruby Marsden Hicks was a member of the Alderville First Nation.

In Anishinabek News

• Home community: Alderville First Nation
• November 2018: She was born in 1919 and as of November 2018 was likely the only living member of the seven Williams Treaties First Nations who was alive when the treaties were imposed in 1923. She regained her Indian status in 1986 after losing it when her parents moved away from the reserve. In November 2018, she received a settlement cheque that she planned to use for her retirement home expenses in Peterborough.
• May 2019: Born in Cobourg in 1919, she celebrated her 100th birthday on May 20, 2019, at the Peterborough Retirement Residence. She is the only current member of Alderville First Nation who was alive when the Williams Treaty came into effect in 1923. She worked in a factory in Peterborough during the 1950s while raising her son as a single mother in Lakefield.
• May 2020: She was the only member of the seven Williams Treaty First Nations who was alive when the treaty came into effect in 1923 and still living for the 2018 settlement. She lost her Indian Status due to enfranchisement policies after leaving Alderville First Nation, but had it reinstated in 1986 through Bill C-31. She received an honorary lifetime membership from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 77 for her extensive volunteer work in Lakefield.
• May 2024: She was the only person alive for both the 1923 signing of the Williams Treaties and the 2018 settlement. Her distribution payment from the settlement funded her final year in a retirement home in Peterborough. The article refers to this person as deceased (no date of death is given).